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Southampton face legal action
- Updated: December 8, 2016
Southampton are facing the prospect of potential legal action by former youth players over alleged historical child sexual abuse.
One man has formally instructed a law firm after alleging that he was abused when he was a teenager training with the club’s youth set-up.
It is understood others who were part of Saints’ youth system in the mid-1980s are also talking to Southampton-based BL Claims Solicitors about possibly representing them.
The unnamed man who has formally instructed the firm claims the first incident of abuse he suffered took place during a youth tournament in …